Egg-carrier.



J. E. TUCKER.

EGG CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 1914.

Patented July 21, 1914.

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J. E. TUCKER. EGG CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 1914.

1 Patented July 21, 1914.

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Tdflzliwlidnait concern. I

citizen;.. of the United States,-

the fol need for shipping g Be it lrnown-that I,"JUNIUS E. TUCKER, a residing at I Memphis,;inthe county of Shelby and State Tenn s have invented a new and useful Improvement in Egg-Carriers,'of which owing is a 'specificatiour My invention relates to an improvement in carriers. for "eggs, small fruits, and the -like, but which .'I have more especially dewhereby they may against being broken while beor handled through the mail,

purpose my improvement is be protect-ed ing ship for whic latter particularly intended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, with a part broken away, of my improved carried, showing the x-cover raised; Fig. 2 is a sectionon line 2, Fig. 3; Fig. 3 is a section on 'the line 3.. Fig. 2, and Big. 4 is a perspective view of one of the similar expansible cells. I

i The box body 5 and cover 6 telescoping it I y are constructed substantially alike of light and cheap paper board, cut and scored without any waste of material, with the endsections overlapping the sides near their ends, where they contain, as the preferred so 1 1a ment to the packer The box is adapted construction, slits 7 to receive tongues 8 for 10 ingjtheparts together in operative position from which they may be readily separated and flattened out to adapt the box for.

return-shipment from the-dealer or shipin knockdown condition. to-contai a plurality of Y similar cells 9, each adapte toreceive an egg. and each comprising, a

l 4 I curled into cylindrical shape with its meet elastic bandlO about the cell.

- endwise against the corrugated face of a I upperends of the cells and fits over the-body strip of individual separated reinforced wrrugated paper board, that used being preferably of the strawboard variety. -This strip is ing edges separable but held together by an The cells seat strip of reinforced corrugated strawboard 11 fitting the bottom of the box, and they are covered by a similar strip 12 extending with its. cushioning corrugations over the fitting in the top box-cover 6, which .snugly' 5, holds the interior parts in place, and may be fastened, for shipment cord or in any of the box. The

manner. The box may,be made in sizes to contain f Specification of. Letters Patent- Paten the construction of which contact withfother vent the eggs from brea' shipment.

mg. by jar against the yielding resistance of rounding cushion against each other.

bottom stn s gated board cushion the'ends. of theoells against longitudinal crashing .and .also cushion the ends off-the cg 'rugatioris on th strips-prwent'their'ends to the box-sides to resist lateral lcrus The .top and \which, are, moreover, reinforced a jar from crushing by the walls 0 the bod y and reinforced byits contents to nesisttonsider uponchnother without danger oflcru'shing them and thereby injuringthe ggs itf'tlie "cushioning cells within-them. 5

In the handling of the stantly increasin volume of r 0st 1t is impossible to handle cartons or unless such containers are of,such construcof the breaking of the eggs carried there y great loss and damage ensues. The package resist shock and ages, which may be piledthereon, but the contents must be so packed as to prevent the from shiftin j in transit.

being at substantially right angles to the line of the corrugations of the boards 11 and 12,- as clearly'illustratedin Fig of the drawings. between which said cells are held, prevents the shifting ofsaid cellsin a dircction lengthwise of the carrier, thereby snugly by an 11 and 12 of reinforced oorrution as to reduce to the minimum the'da r v individual cells or separate egg containers their position in the box whileothese ends I have-found that the edge portions of the ends of the cells a p5 sc um-.19 4

Application aled'lanna'ry 11, 1914'. Serial n w J one dozen or several dozens'of-thecells.9.- I

cushions Hie, cell about each egg themln toProtect'ig'aihst eggs ,in theibox andtgre- I err 00 The normal-diameter ,of-each cell, with its separable edges-held togetherpreferably such as their surbands; and the cells in ,the box ;a-nd'the oorstrains against the box, the ..con'tents o 1n-1 cover. The box is thus sufliciently able pressure from every dire}ct ion,' g th t many of these boxes ma v b stack-dong.)

large and oon'j-if P k g shipped through t e medium of the parcel do oxes containing eggs with, such care as, to I i insure the contents against breakage,*anditself must not only be so'constructed as the weight of other pack-.

preventing the crou'din of one: cell against l smother with resulting reakege of the eggs inclosed thereby J lvhat'I claim as new and desireto secure -by Letters Patent is: I 7 3 r 1. An egg-carrier compr1sing,1n"c0mb1na,=

1 tion, a box, cylindrical corrugated cushion} -ing cells in thebox, havin ing-edges and provided wit 1 circumferential elastic bands, and strips of corrugated cushioning material in the box, between the corr u atedface's of which the cells are confined en wise, and presenting the ends, of their corrugations at substantmlly right angles to the'corru atious of said strips, whereby said cells are'mdividually held 1n filace and reinforce the opposing walls of t e box. 7 2. -An eggcarrier comprising, in combinaseparable ln'eet'- 'JUNIUS E. TUCKER.-

In iresegrcgpof- A. 130mm,

F.-A. FLORELL.

dges and proin place' 30 undreinforee the opposing walls of the box, 

